The Engineers of Augmented Reality

metaio has attained a leading international role in the burgeoning technology segment of Augmented Reality with the development of its metaio software platform. It offers an open architecture and is designed for ease of use by integrators from various fields and backgrounds. Clients and partners can create their own applications, sell their solutions in specific markets increasing their brand awareness and revenues or lowering their costs. Whether it is an advertising campaign, an OEM integration or a completely new product - AR is finding its way into everyday life.

To ensure that we can continue to consolidate and expand our position, we engage actively in scientific research activities while seeking out prospective international partners for both development and marketing. Furthermore metaio holds pivotal patents and is constantly working on expediting its role as a technology and innovation leader. The metaio platform is the technological basis for the revolution in information design. We want to make everything digital accessible in the real world - easy, robust and enjoyable.

Milestones:

  • 04/2005 Release of the Unifeye Platform for commercial Augmented Reality Apps
  • 12/2005 Release of first end-consumer AR solution for product presentation
  • 11/2006 Release of world´s first browser plug-in for web-based AR applications
  • 04/2007 Launch of first live marketing application for AR
  • 11/2007 First fully integrated AR application for Mobile Phone (Symbian OS)
  • 04/2008 Launch of first AR Museum Project
  • 12/2008 World´s first print-web campaign
  • 09/2009 Release of mobile AR browser junaio
  • 08/2010 World´s first mobile AR magazine
  • 01/2011 World´s first AR application for live interaction with a TV
  • 10/2011 World´s first mobile 3D Tracking winning the ISMAR Tracking Contest
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